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'Crack on' I have done quite a bit of work with the military over the years and it seems to be the universal phrase for getting on with it, no matter where I go they all say it
Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson
'Crack on' I have done quite a bit of work with the military over the years and it seems to be the universal phrase for getting on with it, no matter where I go they all say it
One ex military person I knew always said 'let's rock and roll' instead of 'crack on.' I always liked that expression as it was fun and informal whilst he still meant business.
"crash out" as in Henman crashes out of yet another tournament....Newcastle crash out of another cup competition......
Imagine Henman doing a hand brake turn on the Centre Court and smashing into the Umpire's Chair while taking out some twats from the front row with stupid hats and "Come on Tim" T shirts. Now that would be crashing out in style.
just buzzwords bingo been done before but go on fill yer boots with a vertical marketing proposition ideally placed for crossselling opportunites into a currently horizontal market which is ripe for customer aquisition, net market makers and incubate some best of breed wizzywig e-commerce solutions.
on one of my first contracts I had to work with a bunch of HR management consultants to help them merge a group of companies. In the first meeting I attended they started using all those kind of phrases "ducks in a row", "reading from the same page" etc., but I didn't know they were stock phrases.
I'd just finished an arts degree and I thought that they just had an easy, if prosaic, command of metaphor.
At one point they asked me to present a proposed workflow that I was half way through designing, and I said that they were 'trying to open the oven door before the cake had risen'. A couple of them smiled but the rest just nodded appreciatively and carried on.
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